Steve Sampson
Official: www.sampsonart.com
Steve did some brilliant covers for me on the UK comic Overkill in the 1990s
and went on to grace the pages of several UK titles. His web site is packed with some stunning graphics, including his work for Judge Dredd: The Megazine which
have to be seen to be believed.
His old web page -- included on a site shared with
Jason Brashill and Jim Murray -- includes those Overkill covers I coommissioned, plus some stunning imagery of Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson.
Alberto Saichann
Additional info welcome!
Alberto was one of the artists on DC Thomson's Starblazer.
Alf Saporito
Alf Saporito is possibly best known for drawing Gus
the Gorilla for IPC's
humour title Cor!! from #2 onwards,
but his credits also include the British edition of Mad
Magazine –
he drew a
parody of Space:
1999 in
1975, which, according to Mad writer
David Robinson was written by Hitch Hitchings.
Robinson, who also wrote and occasionally drew for British Mad (including
writing and drawing a EastEnders spoof
circa 1986, cover is by Harry North), notes that Saporito's Rollerball front
cover is one of the better British-only Mad covers.
Saporito's other Mad Magazine credits
can be found in this
message on the Mad Mumblings site.
Saporito also drew Gums for Monster
Fun, which continued in Buster.
Scott Christian Sava
Official: www.bluedreamstudios.com
Artist for Astonish Comics The
Lab and the computer-generated Quality
of Life series from Marvel, starring Spider-Man.
Olivia Schanzer
Official: www.metromonster.com
Schanzer was a recipient of the Xeric grant for her book Fragile
Honeymoon. She is currently working on a novel. Karen Sneider is a stand-up
comic who draws comics. Her work has been in Jest
Magazine, the World of Fear
Anthology, and
The Door Magazine.
Liam McCormack-Sharp
The Art of
Liam Sharp: www.liam-sharp.ch.vu
The artist behind Death's Head II, artist on
Swamp Thing, Spawn, the Hulk and more. Liam has launched a new web site, Mam Tor,
and is one of the team behind the Event Horizon anthology.
David Shenton
Official: www.davidshenton.com
Guardian readers should need no introduction
to David's work - he's one of the cartoonists who supply strips to
the UK national newspaper when Steve Bell's on holiday. He's been illustrating
books and drawing comics for some 25 years, for both US and UK clients.
He also has an allotment.
Dave Shelton
Official web site: www.daveshelton.com
Official Blog: daveshelton.blogspot.com
Artist on Good Dog, Bad Dog, which appears in The
DFC. Dave,
a member of the Association of Illustrators who lives in Cambridge,
has been drawing and colouring in professionally since 1990 and, as yet,
has not starved to death as a result. According to his official web site
he believes that there is no time of the day or night when it is inappropriate
to take a bath or to eat breakfast. Do not, under any circumstances,
allow him to talk to you about pens.
Steve Simmons
Official: www.airworksart.com
Steve studied fine art at Liverpool Art College
before embarking on a long and varied career. He has turned his talents
to everything from book illustration and computer game covers to murals
and portraits. In the world of fantasy art he is perhaps best remembered
for his illustrations for the Enchantica books. Some of his well known
clients include Core Design, Danbury Mint, Psygnosis software, Holland
Studio Craft and the Liverpool Playhouse.
SMS
Offiical: www.smuzz.org.uk
SMS "lives in
Lancashire in a house that is bigger on the inside than on the outside."
He illustrates for a number of science fiction magazines, most notably
Interzone, where he has topped the reader's
poll as favourite artist many times. He also won the 1997 British Science
Fiction Award for best artwork.
Work on comic strips includes ABC Warriors for 2000AD,
an adaptation of the Clive Barker Hellraiser story
'Original Sin', and architectural backgrounds for Bryan Talbot's graphic
novel Heart of Empire.
One day, he may even draw downthetubes, but that's really dependent on
John Freeman writing it and being able to afford his much in demand talents...
See also the Dragonfly
Gallery, the original home of the SMS gallery
as well as artist Jim Porter. Some SMS art is also on sale on mugs
and cards etc via www.cafepress.com/downthetubes
Jamie Smart
Link: www.sixtyfootmonkey.com
Ceator of Bear, the indie title published by US publisher Slave Labor Graphics
Smudge
Pencil
Web Link: www.smudgepencil.com
Illustration/Storyboards/Visuals: artists include Colin
Andrew, Geoff Senior and Martin Geraghty.
Oli Smith
Official: www.idlechild.co.uk
Comics writer and illustrator
who claims that he flirts with danger and laughs in the face of fear
on a daily basis. Work includes Hazy Thursday and I Dream of Life, both
available from his web site.
Stu Smith
Official: www.gravitoncreations.com
Stu, offers a dedicated, honest, quick, friendly, fun service
of creative input for your project. "Mostly it is illustration, but also
web design, banner design, flash animation, you know the score, there's
millions of us. I'm one of the silly ones.... I'm open to anything." Parental
advisory site.
Bishakh Som
Official: www.hi-horse.com
Som lives and draws in Brooklyn, NY. His Xeric-winning
collection Angel will be out in early
2004. His apartment abounds with plaintive cats. Along with Joan,
Andrice and Howard he is a
founding member of Hi-Horse Publishing.
Zack Soto
Official: www.studygroup12.com
Soto is a printmaker, cartoonist, illustrator and editor of the
anthology Studygroup12. His comics and illustrations have appeared
in various publications including Kramers
Ergot, All
About
F***in', Kitchen Sink Magazine,
Project: Telstar, the website Serializer.net and
his own series, The Secret Voice.
Mark Stafford
Link: http://bugpowder.com/stafford/
Uncompromising cartoonist - some great stuff here, well worth checking
out.
Dave Stevens
Official: Go
Not been updated for a while, but that appears
to be changing. Features a huge
gallery of the artist's work
Note: Some of the pages contain artistic nudity, and are not intended
for access or viewing by minors. If you are under legal age, or if you
find nudity to be offensive or objectionable, or if you are prohibited
or restricted from viewing such material, please do not visit this site.
Jim Starlin
Official: www.starlin.com
Jim Starlin was an artist whose art and writing I followed religiously
for several years, from his Warlock saga and Captain Marvel.
His characterisation of the Marvel arch-villain Thanos remains, for me, one of the most chilling comics characters ever. Unfortunately when first visited (July 2003) his site doesn't seem to work well on Macs and the Kid Cosmos site doesn't open either without a plug in my Mac can't seem to identify. Curses!
Lew Stringer
Official: lewcomix.tripod.com
Official Brickman Site: http://brickmancomics.tripod.com
E-mail: lew.stringer@BTinternet.com
The brilliant creator of Tom
Thug and Combat Colin (among other characters) Lew has
been
a
professional freelance comic artist & writer since
1984. During that time he's worked for many popular
titles, including Viz, Buster, Sonic
the Comic and Transformers
and UK national newspapers the Daily
Star and the Sunday
Sport.
As of June 2004 he's currently working on Team Toxic (in the every-three-weekly
UK Toxic mag) about a group of monsters in the good old Ken Reid fashion;
and script/art on Suburban Satanists (in the 8 times
a year Herman Hedning comic
published in Norway and Sweden) which is about a family of Satanists. Hopefully that will see publication in the UK or English at some point, because it looks fantastic.
• Buy Brickman
Begins! from Amazon.com: Go
• Buy Brickman Begins! from
Amazon.co.uk: Go
More Lew Stringer on the Web:
• Read a 2005 interview with Lew: Read
More on CWN "Comics and Crumpets"
• Combat Colin fan page: Go
Tony Suleri
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/pucky
Independent artist Tony Suleri has a strong
European style evocative of Moebius and others.
Highly detailed work provides a unique storytelling style. He draws the
independent title Bloodlines, written by A R. Grose.
Lee Sullivan
Official: www.leesullivan.co.uk
Probably the definitive Dalek artist, Lee's
credits include Doctor Who, Robocop, Transformers,
Thunderbirds and many more stunning strips. Always dependable to deliver
work on time -- a consummate professional
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